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National Art Gallery of the Bahamas
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| Hours | Tues-Sat 10am-4pm | ||
| Location | Villa Doyle, W. Hill St. in downtown Nassau | ||
| Transportation | Bus: 10 | ||
| Phone | 242/328-5800 | ||
| Web site | www.nagb.org.bs | ||
| Prices | Admission $5 (£2.65) adults, $3 (£1.60) seniors and students, free for children 12 and under | ||
Frommer's Review
At long last, this archipelago nation has a showcase to display its talented artists. In a restored 18th-century building in the center of Nassau, the gallery features Bahamian art, which as an entity has existed for only 50 years. Museum curators claim that the present collection is only the nucleus of a long-range strategy to beef up the present number of works. Most of the paintings on exhibit are divided into a historical and a contemporary collection. Pioneering Bahamian artists are honored, as are younger and more modern painters. Among island artists, Amos Ferguson is one of the most acclaimed. See his somewhat naive yet sophisticated technique at its best in the painting Snowbirds. He used house paint on cardboard to create a remarkable portrait. Maxwell Taylor and Antonius Roberts are two other heavily featured Bahamian painters.
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Frommer's Bahamas 2009
Author: Darwin Porter |
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